Raising Hare

Raising Hare is a tale of hope, channelled through the enduring and improbable bond between a human and a wild animal. It's a love letter to the natural world * * The Times * * Raising Hare is a glorious book - for its warmth, its precision, its joy. It's not dreamy or romantic about the natural world - it's something far better than that -- KATHERINE RUNDELL In steady, elegant, whimsy-free prose, Dalton documents minute observations of her daily coexistence with the leveret. This is indeed a remarkable debut * * Spectator * * Written with tenderness and lyricism from someone who has taken the time to reconnect to nature and the wild within. A beautiful book -- ANGELINA JOLIE Already tipped by the Bookseller as "a future classic of nature writing", Raising Hare is one of the most gorgeous tales of human-animal connection out there * * iNews * * For those made claustrophobic by the grey blocks of the city, this love letter to the natural world is the perfect antidote * * The Times, 'The Best Books of 2024' * * [An] enchanting book . . . This is a book to reset our attitudes to the wild animals who live around us * * Mail on Sunday * * Raising Hare is an astounding achievement. Not since I read Salar the Salmon by Henry Williamson have I witnessed such insight into a creature of the wild. This is a great and important tale for our times, for all of us, in the same league as Ted Hughes, Alice Oswald, Thomas Hardy and indeed Henry Williamson himself. I am so pleased Chloe Dalton told us about raising hare. I will not forget it and nor will anyone who reads it -- MICHAEL MORPURGO The story of this excellent book is in one sense familiar: a narrator, experiencing a rupture or crisis, is transformed through a magical encounter with a "wild" creature, a hare. But there is much more going on here. Dalton has a zoologist's eye for detail and a poet's sensitivity to language * * Guardian, 'Book of the Day' * * I savoured every carefully chosen and perfectly polished word and I cared so deeply about Hare that I found myself holding my breath . . . This is more than a wildlife memoir, it's a philosophical masterpiece ruminating on our place as human beings in nature -- CLARE BALDING